April CMind Practice Webinar with Rick Chess: "By Heart: A Way of Knowing for This Time"
In this webinar, we’ll explore the practice of coming to know something “by heart.” Together, we’ll ...
April CMind Practice Webinar with Rick Chess: “By Heart: A Way of Knowing for This Time”
In this webinar, we’ll explore the practice of coming to know something “by heart.” Together, we’ll bring a poem into our hearts. In this time of necessary social distancing, we’ll see what happens when we experience the intimacy of getting close to a few words.
Read MoreApril ACMHE Webinar: Cultivating Compassionate Teaching During the Coronavirus
Join us this Friday for the April ACMHE Contemplative Education Webinar: Cultivating Compassionate Teaching During the Coronavirus Friday, April 3rd3-4:30 pm ET/12 noon-1:30 pm PT Featured panelists: Mirabai Bush, Lenwood Hayman, and Paul WapnerFree and open to all, with a $10 suggested donation Register Here As educators, COVID-19 presents a particular challenge: having converted our classrooms to online platforms, we now face the task of teaching in a way that is worthy of this historical moment. What challenges and opportunities does the coronavirus pose? How can we best be of service to...
Read MoreCentered in Blackness: Designing Contemplative Spaces for Black People
In this webinar, Drs. Chatman and Oliver envision “creating and sustaining contemplative space that centers and flows out of our voices, experiences, and collective wisdom as Black scholar-practitioners. We strongly believe that these spaces are important and affirming for Black people and anyone in the broader community interested in learning about contemplative pedagogy through a Black lens.”
Read MoreFostering Belonging and Intercultural Engagement Through Contemplative Practices
Dr. Alexia Ferracuti explores the intersections between contemplative practices and intercultural approaches for creating inclusive learning environments, and identify ways in which contemplative practices can serve as means for developing and modeling educators’ self-awareness and capacity for valuing differences among learners and ways of learning.
Read MoreMentoring as a Contemplative Practice in the Academy
In this webinar, Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde discusses how contemplative practices can assist students, faculty, and staff in doing reflective work that will lead them to mentoring relationships – in all areas of life – that encourage balance, community, appreciation of culture, and academic success.
Read MoreContemplating 400 Years of Inequality
Angel Acosta discusses how using a 4ft x 20ft timeline as a contemplative learning tool supports participants with deepening their understanding of entrenched racial and socio-economic inequality in the United States.
Read More2019 Mindful Education Summit starts October 16th
Starting this Wednesday, October 16th, 35 researchers and educators will offer 5 days of resources on mindfulness in US schools at the free, online Mindful Education Summit.
Read MoreWorking with Fear and Resistance when Fostering Contemplative Space
Fostering contemplative spaces in academic settings is often limited by the fear and resistance educators, students, and administrators face. This webinar will help prepare participants to utilize contemplative practices to work with fear and resistance in themselves, students, management, and systems.
Read MoreA Dialogue on Self-Compassion and Interdependence
Drs. Mamgain and Majied discuss fierce self-compassion as it relates to interdependence so that participants learn how to increase their own positive life force through progressive self-reflection.
Read MoreSoulfulness Practices: Applying the SOUL-Centered Framework (Part 2)
Building upon the June 2019 webinar introducing soulfulness, this webinar focuses on the application of soulfulness to contemplative practice. Presenter Shelly P. Harrell, Ph.D. is a psychologist whose work focuses on individual, relational, and collective well-being in the context of culture and oppression.
Read MoreRadical Love as a Public Health Initiative: the 3rd Arthur Zajonc Lecture by Lenwood W. Hayman, Jr., PhD
7:30 pm on Wednesday, August 7, 2019, in the Smith College Campus Center, 100 Elm Street, Northampton, MA. This event is free and open to all, and we will be live streaming and recording the lecture for those who cannot attend.
Read More“I Got Soul”: Soulfulness, Culture, and Contemplative Practice
This webinar will introduce “soulfulness” as an approach to contemplative practice that centers a synergistic integration of the psychological, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of soul.
Read MoreBridging the Gap between Islam, Islamophobia and Contemplative Pedagogy
Participants in this webinar will engage foundational information about Islam, Islamophobia, and the historical context about Islam as relevant to current-day realities, and will consider connections between Islam and contemplative practices, and opportunities to create space for Muslims in contemplative education.
Read MoreFaith in a Seed: Strategies for Nurturing and Embedding Contemplative Approaches on our Campuses
In this webinar with Juliet Trail, Director of Education for the University of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center, we will walk through ways in which we can cultivate contemplative approaches across the various mission areas of higher education – including academics, the co-curricular domain (including student life, student health, and faculty/staff life), research, service, and patient care.
Read MoreThe Tree of Contemplative Practices
In this webinar with Maia Duerr, research director of CMind’s Contemplative Net Project (2002-2004), you’ll learn about the inspiration and story behind the Tree of Practices concept: the image was originally created as a way to organize and represent the project’s findings.
Read MoreCultivating Hope in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous World
A webinar with Éliane Ubalijoro, PhD, exploring how we can navigate challenges we face today and others we have yet to anticipate, especially in higher education.
Read MoreContemplative Resistance
In this webinar with organizer and activist Holly Roach Knight, we will look at some of the obstacles to social change and explore how a contemplative view, practice, and conduct can help us address them. In essence, we will look at how contemplative education in higher education can help equip students to navigate and contribute to equity and social justice work.
Read MoreBegin With Wholeness, End With Joy
In this webinar, Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde draws on the work done in her graduate level Black Feminisms class to ask, “What if we intentionally structure our teaching with rituals of wholeness, healing, and joy; practices that help students feel connected to the powerful things that can nurture and sustain them?”
Read MoreWebinar: A Brief Time for Practice, Togetherness and Supportive Resource-Sharing
On Wednesday, October 31st, Carrie Bergman, CMind’s Associate Director, will host an open time for self-guided contemplative practice and an opportunity to share helpful resources.
Read MoreContemplation, Reflexivity, and Gender/ Sexual Diversity in the Classroom
This webinar offers an introduction to Dr. Kerr Mesner’s work developing contemplative and anti-oppressive approaches to addressing issues of gender/sexual diversity in the classroom. Participants will have an opportunity to engage with this work experientially, as well as to reflect on their own teaching practices in addressing gender/ sexual diversity in their own classrooms.
Read MoreContemplative Practices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
This webinar with Dr. Patricia Owen-Smith focuses on the place of contemplative knowing and contemplative practices within the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) framework.
Read More2nd Annual Arthur Zajonc Lecture on Contemplative Education: “If the Beautiful See Themselves, They Will Love Themselves: Contemplative Practice and Cultural Healing”
A lecture by Veta Goler, Associate Professor and Chair of Dance Performance & Choreography, Spelman College. Free and open to the public.
Read MoreTrauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
Educator and trauma professional David Treleaven draws on a decade of research and clinical experience to discuss safe, transformative ways of teaching and practicing mindfulness with an awareness of trauma.
Read MoreAcross the Divides: A Pedagogy of Love
In this video, Dr. Paul Wapner delivers the inaugural address of the Arthur Zajonc Contemplative Education Lecture Series. Filmed on Wednesday, August 9, 2017.
Read MoreLessons From the Off Ramp
As she prepares to retire, Renée A. Hill writes, “This webinar is about what I have learned in the classroom over the last fifteen years about contemplative practices and what they can bring to learning and growth—both that of my students and my own.”
Read MoreA Heartful Way of Living
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will discuss community building and designing healing spaces through diverse sources of knowledge, storytelling, embodied practice, and creative expression.
Read MoreKnowing & Growing: Creating and Sustaining Contemplative Communities
This webinar, presented by Stephanie Briggs (Assistant Professor of English, Community College of Baltimore County), focuses on ways to develop and maintain a campus-wide contemplative community. We will investigate how to recruit faculty and staff members, the design of a program, goals and objectives of the community, individual/shared facilitation, and cost.
Read MoreNew Toolkit for Contemplative Community Building in Higher Education
We hope that the toolkit will support the continued development of living and learning environments that support inquiry into meaning, purpose, and action.
Read MoreEnacting Human Revolution: The Inner Social Justice Movement
Dr. Kamilah Majied will lead participants through activities that enable them to infuse a liberatory consciousness into their teaching and their contemplative practice.
Read MoreTo Unite Against Hate
In the wake of the racist, nationalist, white supremacist marches in Charlottesville, we are once again called to unite against hate, violence, and domestic terrorism.
Read MoreCultural Humility and Theater of the Oppressed
More than a concept, cultural humility is a process of personal and communal reflection to analyze the root causes of suffering and create a broader, more inclusive view of the world. To practice cultural humility is to maintain a willingness to suspend what we know, or what we think we know, about a person based on generalizations about their culture.
Read MoreCreating a Contemplative Culture at Community Colleges: Leadership and Classroom Practices
In this webinar, Pearl Ratunil and Jon Brammer explore what a contemplative “initiative” can be at a two-year college where resources are scarce, the audience for contemplative pedagogy is sparse, and the need for contemplative approaches is great.
Read MoreMindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives
In this webinar, Dr. Levy will present some of the contemplative exercises and methods used in his courses and seminars. He will also discuss the philosophy underlying them, which places the emphasis on student discoveries through mindful observation and reflection, rather than on general rules that everyone should, or must, obey.
Read MoreRegarding the Election of Donald Trump
The deep divisions which the election further exposed require reflective, thoughtful, and innovative teaching, leadership, and action in the search for solutions and justice.
Read MoreUniting in Strength and Love after the Orlando Shooting
In the wake of the tragic shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, we at the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society grieve for the senseless harm, the lives lost and the ignorance, hatred and intolerance that brought it about.
Read MoreContemplating Chicano Park and a New Pedagogic Imaginary
Prof. Alberto López Pulido presents a webinar underscoring the importance of contemplative practices for students of color at a private Roman Catholic University in San Diego, California. Through this work, a new Pedagogic Imaginary is put forth that embraces cultural diversity and social justice for all students, but in particular, students of color and first-generation students.
Read MoreContinuing the Momentum: Contemplative Practices, Social Justice, and Building Communities
Our vision of transformative change holds contemplative methods as inseparable from community building, anti-racism and anti-oppression work: as we develop ways of recognizing our inextricable interconnection with each other and our planet, we continually refine and deepen our ability to respond to these challenges.
Read MoreThe Science of Contemplative Practice and the Practice of Contemplative Science
This webinar with Dr. Aaron Godlaski asks, How best do we connect the pedagogy of contemplative practices with the scholarship of contemplative studies? Should we treat research and practice as dichotomy, or dialectic?
Read MoreWe’d Like to Send You a Tree….
Donate $20 or more to CMind before midnight ET on December 31, 2015, and we’ll send you three 8.5″ x 11″ glossy printed copies of the Tree of Contemplative Practices–our popular illustration of many “branches” of contemplative practice.
Read MoreBuilding Just Communities: The 2015 ACMHE Conference at Howard University
With the grounds of historic Howard serving as a quiet touchstone, we came together to practice, to share our work, and to experience Just Community within our growing and evolving field of teachers, scholars, and learners.
Read MoreSupport CMind this #GivingTuesday
Gifts of any size make a difference–especially this month, as we have received a matching grant from a generous supporter!
Read MoreContemplative Education for Racial Justice: Meeting Hate with the Power of Love
As President of the Board of The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, I write to express my heartbreak over the recent criminal act of hate, terrorism and profound alienation from the sense of Beloved Community that we saw in the shooting that took place last week at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, SC.
Read MoreContemplative Practices and 21st Century Skills
While we certainly cannot predict the exact characteristics of 21st century skills and their requirements, a deeper consideration of our present situation can help us make observations about the kinds of skills that will support personal and global thriving.
Read MoreA special event to support earthquake relief efforts in Nepal
If you’re located in the Western Massachusetts area, we hope you’ll consider joining us on Thursday, June 11th, at 7:00pm for a special film screening and Q & A to support relief efforts following the devastating earthquakes in Nepal.
Read MoreHow Mindfulness Can Defeat Racial Bias
When we consider these new findings along with some of the already proven benefits of mindfulness, and combine them with teachings about contemporary forms of racism, the outlines of an effective set of new mindfulness-based interventions—for police, doctors, educators, and the full range of others—have already begun to emerge.
Read More3 Steps for Building & Evaluating Successful Contemplative Programs
This webinar is designed for anyone interested in discovering the 3 essential steps for developing, implementing and evaluating sustainable contemplative programs and pedagogical approaches in the classroom or educational community.
Read MoreIn Support of Changes to the Smith College Admission Policy
This past Saturday, the trustees of Smith College voted to admit transgender women to the college. We applaud this decision: honoring self-identification is an important political statement that, we believe, will foster greater freedom and expression for all.
Read MoreFocusing on Justice
As we create liberatory, anti-racist contemplative pedagogies, classrooms, and institutions, our efforts must be rooted in a focused commitment to understanding our individual experiences, the experiences of others, and how our experiences relate to the political, social/cultural, and economic systems in which we participate.
Read MoreBe. Still. Move: Creative Contemplative Movement
A webinar on using movement, storytelling, and art to discover students’ embodied knowledge, develop a connection to personal body/mind insights, and internalize new knowledge.
Read MoreChallenges and Opportunities in Contemplative Higher Education
In this webinar, Carolyn Jacobs and Mirabai Bush engage in a dialogue about their experience teaching students in Smith College’s Contemplative Clinical Practice Advanced Certificate Program.
Read MoreFeatured Resource:
Using Contemplative Practices to Promote Well-Being and Social Justice Awareness
A webinar with Michelle Chatman, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, University of the District of Columbia
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